§ Mr. Fletcher-Cookeasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer when taxpayers in the North-West will have their tax records taken on to the Schedule E Centre computer in Liverpool; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Patrick JenkinThe Inland Revenue planned to begin taking on to the computer next January P.A.Y.E. work of certain tax districts around Manchester. However, in view of the fact that tax offices will be heavily engaged next year in preparing for the introduction of unified tax in 1973–74, and bearing in mind that the Inland Revenue is reviewing the whole structure of P.A.Y.E., we have decided that it would be prudent to defer the take-on of work to the computer by six months, beginning then with the P.A.Y.E. records mainly of Manchester taxpayers already held in offices in Bootle. The Inland Revenue will notify employers whose P.A.Y.E. work will not now be transferred to Bootle in 1972.